Posted on: September 23, 2012

marcnino

Games: 513 Reviews: 3

A Misunderstood Classic

This is easily one of my favorites in the franchise (and I've been there since the very beginning), but it's surprisingly misunderstood by a lot of gamers. From those gamers, you'll hear things like "it's too easy" or "the combat's lame." These people don't get the point. This game is all about giving you an amazing jungle gym of a world, and letting you jump and climb all over it. The level design is truly breathtaking, among the very best I've experienced. The thrill of running around and doing Prince of Persia-y things is so well captured in this one, and none of the typical frustrations (dying and restarting from checkpoints, excessive filler combat, craptacular attempts to be "edgy" (yes, I'm looking at you, Warrior Within)) get in the way of this. If you love to be placed in a fantasy world and be able to bound all around it, Prince of Persia is pure bliss.

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Posted on: December 14, 2014

Eldwen

Games: 72 Reviews: 3

Oh look - You can't die!

I really wish I could rate this game lower than one star - one star gives it far too much credit for the effort - or better put - lack of effort - put into this. Game-play - is the worst thing this has to offer. There is nothing about this that is an actual "game", there is no chance of failure, there "boss" fights are an exercise of just waiting it out until you win - since you cannot die. It is physically impossible to die in this game, because you have a magical partner with the arms of Mike Tyson to simply "lift" you out of any crater you would fall to, or revive you if anything at all would dare "Challange" you. This whole game's story is also very, very poor. It's ending is shoddily done, and makes the entire game - a worthless endeavor already, become actually in it's own canon completely pointless. Really, you could just not play this game and you'll have the same result. I cannot describe how much this game is not worth your time, is not worth ten dollars, or even a dime. Don't buy this. If you want a pretty game, with a much better, full arched story, and far better game-play, pick up Ori and the Blind Forest.

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Posted on: November 2, 2021

hamsterbacke2k6

Verified owner

Games: 655 Reviews: 7

quite boring

pro: - beautiful graphics - beautiful worlds - nice music - comic look con: - Hated to search the light seeds. Those things have to be collected after finishing a boss in the same world you already have gone to get to the boss. It's just a time waster for me and adds no additional fun for me. - Quite easy. One has to press the jump button at a rightish moment and that is enough for the most part. - Don't like it when the girl has to be piggybacked when climbing on a vine. She can save me from any abyss and death but she is unable to climb it herself or just fly besides me? And it destroys the fluidity of the movement when she climbs my back. - the controls feel a bit squishy when trying to go in the correct direction I get it that people love this game. I guess they like the graphics/sounds and the easy processing without any obstacles. If you also like to collect things without having problems with immensive backtracking this game is for you.

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Posted on: September 19, 2013

LazarusNine

Games: 517 Reviews: 12

An attempt that falls flat

They were obviously trying to mix things up a bit with this game, but the ultimate result is a very uninteresting and unchallenging game. On the face, it promises spirit and novelty. Upon completing the game, you'll feel like you were held by the hand (quite literally) though a spiritless series of events and you'll be left feeling a bit numb from the paint-by-numbers experience. The only word I can think of to describe this game is: inert (which is interesting given the focus on fluid movement throughout).

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Posted on: December 29, 2021

Bloodrunsclear

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Games: 1219 Reviews: 143

Pretty, but slow and a bit irritating

I really like the painterly look of this game and the main cast is clearly having a good time and have fun personalities even if the story they fall is very simple (darkness bad, light and plants good). The parkour is pretty and ideally running around and up and over pretty landscapes is fun in theory. This is not a sequel or a prequel to the original theory but a reboot, but it's not irritating. The problem is this has been dumbed down hard. The Prince cannot run, he just speed walks everywhere (probably because his sword is way too big to be practical). Combat is just blocking forever until an opening presents itself then jamming several types of attack until a meter goes down and it's always one on one. The part that made me most annoyed though was the fact The Prince will not grab onto certain ledges if he's not going the 'right' way He'll just slide off some surfaces, jump the wrong way, or just stop moving forward and fall. And whenever this happens he'll scream and moan and need to be rescued. After the sixtieth time of The Prince falling, screaming, and reappearing far away from his goal I got annoyed. This is clearly an analogue to the sands of time rewind power, but there you could choose how far back and to where you started when you messed up. Here it's decided for you, the cutscene is unskipable, the screen changes color anticipating your failure, and frankly there's times he REALLY should have grabbed onto a ledge instead of just gave up and died. Then there's the hundreds of glowing life seeds you need to collect in enemy free environments after you finish each level. Fun for awhile but so spread out you get bored looking for them. A valiant attempt to revitalize the franchise and try something new, but it needs to be fun as well as new, and this wasn't quite.

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